Folk: Simon Ager

These are folky tunes I've written, mainly for fun.

My Tunes / Fy Alawon

This is a tune I wrote in April 2017, played on the harp, high and low whistle, piano, cavaquinho and ocarina. The ocarina makes the tweeting sounds at the end.

The title came to me after looking out of my kitchen window one day and seeing the hedge in my garden full of sparrows. I didn't mange to get a photo then, but this is a photo I took of sparrows, and blackbirds, in a bush on Bangor seafront.

My Tunes

A Hedge Full of Sparrows

A Hedge Full of Sparrows / Gwyrch Llawn Adar y To

I wrote this tune in March 2017, and recorded it on the guitar, with each part recorded separately.

You can see the dots at: https://musescore.com/user/16918231/scores/5607271

The Scampering Squirrels / Y Gwiwerod sy'n Prancio

This is a new recording of a tune I wrote in January 2016, played on the harp, with each part recorded separately. I used a pūrerehua (a kind of bull roarer from New Zealand) to makes the wind noises.

The photo comes from: https://flic.kr/p/cJP3Z5

The Whirlwind / Y Troellwynt

I wrote this tune in 2015. It came to me while noddling around on the cavaquinho, and as it had a bell-like quality to it, I decided to use bells in the title. Hirael is the area of Bangor where I live. The photo is one I took of Hirael Bay and Porth Penrhyn.

This version is played on the cavaquinho, with multiple parts recorded separately.

You can see the score of an arrangement of this tune for recorders at: https://musescore.com/user/16918231/scores/5558691

The Bells of Hirael / Clychau Hirael

This a tune I wrote in September 2017 while playing around on the piano. This version is played on the piano, high and low whistles, cavaquinho, guitar and percusion.

You can find the dots for an arrangement of this for flute and harp at: https://musescore.com/user/16918231/scores/5731274

The photo comes from: https://flic.kr/p/SowLHE

My Tunes /  Fy Alawon

Dancing on Air / Dawnsio ar Awyr

This is a tune I wrote in 2016, played on the harp. I recorded the different parts separately - they are not quite together in places, which gives an unsteady feeling you might have if you were dancing on custard.

Dancing on Custard / Dawnsio ar Gwstard

I write songs and tunes, play a few instruments, and like singing. To earn a living I run a website about languages and alphabets (Omniglot). I also make a podcasts about words and language on Radio Omniglot.